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5 Essential Blues Boxes

Best Seller - A non-traditional way of looking at the fretboard. 5 crucial soloing shapes that are designed around common blues licks that people actually play.

About This Course

You’ll never sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan using blues scales. That’s because he didn’t study or play scales to get his sound. He studied and played licks. There’s a big difference.

Many of the licks he played can be captured in 5 simple shapes. They’re not scales, just guidelines. This is a shortcut (and it’s not for everyone) but if you can’t make your scales sound great, you might be working too hard.